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25 the purpose, instead of the plank box-track UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES H. ECHOLS, or LYNoHBURG, VIRGINIA.

PULLING UP IwPE YARNS.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 60, dated October '20, 1836.

' To all whom it may coa ce'm:

, Campbell and'State -o vented a newand useful made of pulling up Be it known that I, JAMES H. Ecnons, of

in the county of the town of Lynchbur ginia; have inhand-spunrope yarn spun at a ropewalk, of

' any size suitable for rope or. twine on bobbins or spools as it is spun by means of an overhead track, of which the following'is" a .full and-exact description;

It is an overhead box way made of plank,

and fastened to the underside of the joist or.

beams of the ropewalk, and so constructed in the inside as to, carry little cars or carriages, the box-way must have an uninter-.

rupted opening in the bottom, and each car or carriage, (which must not be less in number than the number of spinners) must have a tweezer or peg fastened to the underside, and to come down through the opening in 4 the box-track to which the spinners when they spin-out fasten their threads.

For a short ropewalk an uninterrupted twine, or wire with followers on them made to slip backward, and forward will answer above described, the followers are hung to the string or wire by wirestaples or they may be fixed on wooden pulleys as in the model.

The ropewalk wheels, whirls, spindles, &c.,

are such as are in common'use at all establishments;

- scribing must have two wheel boys, or turne'rs, one at each end. And there must beateach end also two separate wheels, with We will take, say, a company .of four spinners;- They have twosets of wheels, whirls, &c., one at each end of the ropewalk with hooks in the joists or beams over head to put their threads in as they spin along with this overhead fixture right in thecen; ter of the walk over the heads of the spins ners, the-spinners upon the plan I- am, de-

the box-track,-(or over-head fixture) taking care that the hooks on either side of the box-track, or overhead fixture shall be so arranged that the one nearest to the track on either side shall be a littlehigher than the second one, and the second a little higher than the third, the'third alittle higher than the fourth, so that the row say eight hooks -fonr'on each side of the track will have some resemblance of the letter I\, though s read out wide more in this shape the Our spinners after getting down find the little cars or carriages over their heads, they each put his thread in the tweezer or round the peg. in the car and turn-round, and spin up from off the other wheel on the other hooks that are on the opposite side of the track. And while-they are spinning up'the wheel boy or turner that turned for them --torspin down is putting up their. first spun threads on bobbins with the bobbin wheel, the operation of which brings up the car or follower, which holds on tothe end of the thread, and the box-track or fixture being above the highest hooks lifts the.

thread very neatly out, which makes the bperation simple, convenient, and beautiful, bythe time the wheelboy gets up the four threads the spinners Wlll be up to their first wheel, again, where they find their cars or carriages ready to fasten their threads to, they then turn about, and spin down again on their first side, and inthe meanwhile their second wheelboy is puttin up their second set ofvthreads on .the b0 bin wheel below, which he has done by the time the spinners get down again. By this plan the spinners lose no time in walking back to their wheel, and the time of both-the wheel boys are filled up in turning and putting the yarn on bobbins alternately.

The advantages set forth by this plan of work are as follows! First the turning of rope yarn'from ofl the-bobbins in sizes,

as you want to make the rope, you put the threads through the gage, and use a tube "to force back the extra tarinsteadof a nipper. Another advantage is it prepares' 1t for. making white rope for riggi &c. on

what is, termed thefpatiat plan, width is the most approved pla'n n'ow in use it puts it on the bobbins at ones when it 1s ready to be made intorope. Another, and by-far the most-importantadvantage is that the spun stuff "put on bobbins, neatly "s heed together makes one continual threa for per-' as a dozen times the length'of the ropewa or more, which. prepares it for being made into rope or twine of any kind or quality't-hat'vmay be wanted by machinery similar to the spindles, and flyers and heart mo- .tion of cotton factory machinery, this last 5 named advantage of this improvement is no doubt to 'produce a great change in the ma'nu'factory of twine, and cordage made of hemp or flax. I am using a machine now for-making twine, and find great advantage from it. There are "a'rious ways in which this improvement'maybe used to advantage though they'are of less importance and perhaps not v necessary to name, as any change will read ily suggest itself to practical men.

What I .elaim as new and as my own invention, and discovery, and for which I ask exclusive privilege isy y The over-head box-way with cars, or carriages; or

or yarn for twine on spools 01' b0 by placing it in a convenient shape to be manufactured into rope or twine of any kind or size upon thedifi'erent kinds of ma- I lay no claim. y

' JAMEsH. EoHoLs;

Witnesses: I

sAMUEL STEEL, B. WOODWARD.

the twine or wire with followersfor the convenience of putting up)rope-yarn,

bins,therechinery, now in common use, and to which r 

